dklawson
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I have a friend who is running an Austin Marina in Lemons racing. His car runs an MGB engine and gearbox. While taking engine parts to the shop this week the machinist showed him something that surprised him.
The machinist had a cylinder head from a Nissan forklift. There are some differences with the rocker arm oil feed and heater valve takeoff but the heads are surprisingly similar. The machine shop has had the head just lying around from a customer who left it years ago. My friend is curious about whether this head would fit the B engine he is working on.
He put some pictures in his PhotoBucket account. Please take a look at them using the forward and back buttons on the page that opens via the link below.
https://s1270.photobucket.com/user/...pg.html?&_suid=139179378372805847910819276496
I know that BMC shared A-series engine technology with Datsun/Nissan during the late 1950 and that the Japanese developed their own version of the A-series but I have not heard of them doing anything similar with the B-series. Is there any history to suggest that the Japanese got the technology from BMC for the MGA engine or later MGB?
Thanks for looking and sharing your comments.
Doug L.
The machinist had a cylinder head from a Nissan forklift. There are some differences with the rocker arm oil feed and heater valve takeoff but the heads are surprisingly similar. The machine shop has had the head just lying around from a customer who left it years ago. My friend is curious about whether this head would fit the B engine he is working on.
He put some pictures in his PhotoBucket account. Please take a look at them using the forward and back buttons on the page that opens via the link below.
https://s1270.photobucket.com/user/...pg.html?&_suid=139179378372805847910819276496
I know that BMC shared A-series engine technology with Datsun/Nissan during the late 1950 and that the Japanese developed their own version of the A-series but I have not heard of them doing anything similar with the B-series. Is there any history to suggest that the Japanese got the technology from BMC for the MGA engine or later MGB?
Thanks for looking and sharing your comments.
Doug L.